Recovery Meditations

One of the hardest things for broken people is to be humble enough to receive love, and receive love, and receive love again until our hearts are filled and healed.

When we approach God with a desire for our shortcomings to be removed, we come asking God to apply His unconditional love to our fears, to the gaps in our heart, to the pain in our memories.

In Twelve Step programs, the seventh step invites us to humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.

After his final encounter with the Pharisees the man who had received his sight was thrown out of the synagogue for testifying about Jesus and questioning the Jewish leaders about their judgment of Him.

When the blind man was questioned by the Pharisees as to how Jesus healed him he told them, but that did not satisfy them.

Jesus healed a blind man and one would assume that he, his parents and friends must have greatly rejoiced that he received his sight.

Jesus was passing by with His disciples when he saw a man who was blind from birth.

How do you view a person who has been born with some type of infirmity such as blindness, deafness, dumbness, spina bifida, or any other type of disorder or disease of the body?

God’s kingdom has nothing to do with eating or drinking.

Where’s your “happy place?” Recently, when I typed those words into an image search on Google I came up with pictures of: young hands holding older wrinkled hands; a wedding celebration; friends jumping for joy in the outdoors; a young child looking peacefully on a baby – I assume a younger brother or sister; someone resting in a hammock; a picture of a sky with a rainbow; beautiful blue beach; a lovely cup of coffee.

Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.